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"Die aktuelle Krise in Europa hat deutlich gemacht, dass Mainstream-Ansätze in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften allenfalls sehr bedingt geeignet sind, um Dynamik und Krise wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung adäquat verstehen zu können. In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir, dass eine Kombination von Ansätzen der Kritischen Politischen Ökonomie sowie des Postkeynesianismus eine systematische Beschreibung der ökonomischen und politischen Dimensionen der Krise in der EU ermöglicht und damit wichtige wirtschaftspolitische Ansatzpunkte liefert."

"European integration theory considers to what extent the EU can realize a telos where American pluralism is the template. Not without merits, but considering the financial and eurozone crises fatally, such perspectives elide power relations and attendant contradictions and irrationalities that are constitutive of transatlantic integration itself. Regulation theory, which synthesizes the reformist ethos of Europe's postwar statist tradition and Marxism, and which has produced a considerable body of analysis of the EU published at the margins of EU scholarship, offers a compelling alternative that potentially overcomes these shortcomings. This article critically assesses how regulation theory has interpreted the single market, financial liberalization and EMU as a suppression of alternatives to neoliberal post‐Fordism, or finance‐led accumulation, in Europe. It argues that understanding the EU's current conjuncture of eurozone crisis management requires a neo‐Gramscian extension of regulation theory, stressing transnational patterns of capitalist accumulation and power relations."

"Sustainable green finance is often promoted as an innovative tool to deal with environmental problems. This paper assesses policy proposals at the level of the EU and UNCTAD's Green New Deal, specifically regarding its suggestions in the field of sustainable finance. It provides a theoretical framework in the tradition of critical political economy and combines a global perspective with regulation theory in order to assess different strategies in the area of sustainable finance. The respective proposals and initiatives can be considered as possible blueprints for hegemonic strategies within different contexts. However, the analysis suggests both proposals, although substantially different and representing different entities in the international political economy, fail to provide a systematic answer to the problems of a highly unequal over-use of natural and environmental resources at a global level."